Month: June 2018

Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company secures $7,764,000 in total project financing Capital Access Group (www.capitalaccess.com), a commercial real estate lender specializing in U.S. Small Business Administration 504 loans for growing businesses, recently helped Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company to secure [Read More …]

FFA partnership will showcase innovation

National FFA is unveiling the Blue Room experience at the national convention & expo The National FFA Organization and AgriNovus Indiana are bringing the convergence of innovative technology, science, research and entrepreneurship to FFA members [Read More …]

Senator Pat Roberts: Let’s Get This Farm Bill Done

U.S. Senator Pat Roberts spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate about the farm bill U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, spoke on the floor [Read More …]

Got corn rootworm?

Try this alfalfa pest solution developed from Northern NY research results Following the successful application of biocontrol nematodes to reduce the impact of alfalfa snout beetle, Northern New York farmers and a research team led [Read More …]

Vets-Plus Receives Two Awards at the 2018 National Animal Supplement Council (NASC) Annual Conference

Vets-Plus, Inc., a leading manufacturer of animal health and nutritional products located in Menomonie, WI, received two of the National Animal Supplements Council’s (NASC) most prestigious awards at the Council’s annual conference in Phoenix, AZ. [Read More …]

Working Together to Strengthen the Lives of Rural Americans: American Farm Bureau President Joins Connected Nation Board of Directors

American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) President Zippy Duvall may lead one of the nation’s largest and most prominent nonprofits, but at heart he’s a third-generation farmer from Georgia. Duvall is someone who advocates for and [Read More …]

Caputo Cheese Dominates Burrata and Mozzarella Categories

At 2018 World Championship Cheese Contest Caputo Cheese, renowned for offering high quality dairy products, received three prestigious awards at this year’s World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison, Wis. Earning first and second place within [Read More …]

Secretary Ross, USDA secretary Perdue cross paths in Chicago

CDFA secretary Karen Ross and USDA secretary Sonny Perdue crossed paths today at the United Fresh show in Chicago. Secretary Ross met with produce buyers to discuss California’s role in implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act’s Produce Safety [Read More …]

Farm Aid heads to Connecticut September 22nd!

Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews to headline Farm Aid’s annual music and food festival featuring family farmers, homegrown food, inspiring music and agrarian experiences will come to Connecticut for the first [Read More …]

Vault Technologies Hires Grant Cupps as CTO Leading technologist joins growing agri-fin-tech company

Grant Cupps was already familiar with the team and the technology at Vault; in a previous role at Vela (OptionsCity), he built the original iteration of Vault’s software. He joins the team as CTO and [Read More …]

Alltech celebrates 30 years in Canada

Kentucky agriculture trade mission to Canada coincides with anniversary Colleagues, friends and dignitaries recently gathered in Guelph at Alltech’s Canadian headquarters to celebrate the global animal nutrition company’s 30th anniversary operating in Canada. Founded in [Read More …]

American Farmers and Cheese Makers Ask President Trump to Suspend Tariffs on Mexican Products As NAFTA Talks Continue

More than 60 companies and organizations representing American dairy farmers and cheese makers commended President Donald Trump today for his efforts on equitable trade and for insisting that Canada halt its market-distorting dairy practices. At [Read More …]

Bob Sabo recognized as 2018 Genetic Consultant of the Year

Select Sires honors Bob Sabo of Green Bay, Wis. with the 2018 Select Mating Service® (SMS®) genetic consultant of the year award. Sabo was recognized at the 2018 SMS Conference among more than 115 genetic [Read More …]

Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese Wins First Place Award at the Wisconsin State Fair

The Crave family is continuing its award-winning streak for Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese. Their latest honors come from the 2018 Wisconsin State Fair Dairy Products Contest, where they stacked up First, Second and Third Place [Read More …]

The Farmer’s Cow Limited Edition Root Beer Milk is Back for July

The surprise hit flavor from last summer! Order now for distribution to locations throughout Connecticut and southeastern Massachusetts. Customers loved the old-fashioned taste of The Farmer’s Cow Root Beer Milk. This one-of-a-kind Limited Edition flavor is a creamy [Read More …]

Select Sires Introduces Fertility Insights with CowManager

Select Sires is proud to partner with CowManager®, the leading cow monitoring company, to introduce Fertility Insights. New data integration capabilities within the CowManager system accelerate cow fertility insights and have been designed to collect, [Read More …]

As U.S.-China Dispute Escalates, Farm Groups See Added Risk With No Escape

Commodity prices are falling in the wake of President Trump’s threat of round after round of tariffs on China, and on Tuesday, groups representing wheat and soybean growers warned that the White House is making [Read More …]

CWT Assists with 2.5 Million Pounds of Cheese and Butter Export Sales

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) member cooperatives accepted offers of export assistance from CWT that helped them capture contracts to sell 2.460 million pounds (1,116 metric tons) of Cheddar, Gouda and Monterey Jack cheese and 55,116 [Read More …]

News

NMC conference highlights solutions to emerging milk quality issues

Participants learn from industry experts, cardiologist and university professors After a 12-year hiatus, National Mastitis Council (NMC) returned to Canada for its regional meeting, held June 20-22, in Guelph, Ont., Canada. The event attracted nearly [Read More …]

CDFA-funded dairy digester project by Calgren Dairy Fuels wins industry award

Funded by California Climate Investments, CDFA’s Dairy Digester Research and Development Program (DDRDP) provides financial assistance for the installation of dairy digesters in California, resulting in reduced greenhouse gas emissions. To date, CDFA has awarded $8.2 [Read More …]

Donald Trump will protect American farmers from China’s trade retaliation according to Sonny Perdue

The US has to stand up to China’s abusive trade practices like intellectual property theft. And we won’t leave farmers to face Chinese bullying alone. In 2011, a group of Chinese nationals dug up genetically engineered [Read More …]

Reactions to passage of House farm bill

Secretary Perdue Statement on 2018 Farm Bill Passing the House of Representatives U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed their version of the 2018 Farm Bill: [Read More …]

News

NMC conference highlights solutions to emerging milk quality issues

Participants learn from industry experts, cardiologist and university professors After a 12-year hiatus, National Mastitis Council (NMC) returned to Canada for its regional meeting, held June 20-22, in Guelph, Ont., Canada. The event attracted nearly [Read More …]

PDPW: Will we see you Tuesday? Water Matters.

It’s this Tuesday June 26, 2018 Join us for tours, discussions, solutions, and answers to your water quality questions UW Discovery Farms and Professional Dairy Producers (PDPW) have teamed up once again to showcase water-quality innovations [Read More …]

House action on farm bill fosters stability for dairy community

A group representing hundreds of Midwestern dairy farmers issued a statement regarding passage today of the farm bill by the U.S. House of Representatives. The vote for the bill, called the “Agriculture and Nutrition Act [Read More …]

American Farmland Trust Celebrates Legislative Victories for Farmland Protection

American Farmland Trust, the organization behind the national movement No Farms No Food, supports today’s passage of the House Farm Bill as an important milestone for farmland and ranchland protection and a vital step in [Read More …]

House Subcommittee Approves Precision Ag Bill

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee last week approved Farm Bureau-supported legislation that will help close rural America’s digital divide by creating a task force to focus on the needs of precision agriculture. The Precision [Read More …]

Dairy Farmers Of America Honored As A Finalist For Foodbev Media’S World Dairy Innovation Awards